Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Beginning Lines of Famous Poems in English

                                     Famous Poem Beginnings

*To a Skylark- Percy Bysshe Shelley
                                                   
                                 "Hail to thee, blithe spirit
                                  Bird thou never wert,
                                  That from Heaven, or near it,
                                  Pourest thy full heart
                                  In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."

*The Waste Land-T S Eliot
                                 
                                    "April is the cruellest month, breeding
                                     Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
                                     Memory and desire, stirring
                                     Dull roots with spring rain."

*Ode to Nightingale- John Keats
                                   
                                    "My heart aches and a drowsy numbness pains
                                      My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
                                      Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
                                      One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk."

*Ode to West Wind- P. B Shelley
                                     
                                       "O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
                                        Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
                                         Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing."